Ha ha ha...I have yet to see a published setting that wasn't chock full of shitty made-up names like that or full of idiotic apostrophes or unpronounceable letter combinations.  Official setting suck as a rule.

Quote from: Matt;830563Ha ha ha...I have yet to see a published setting that wasn't chock full of shitty made-up names like that or full of idiotic apostrophes or unpronounceable letter combinations.  Official setting suck as a rule.

Greyhawk and BX Known World were actually pretty good. They werent as repettitive or overwrought as some later iterations.

The few glances Ive had at Birthright seems it has an interesting land naming convention.

April to September is a huge gap to have no releases in. Do they seriously expect to keep everyone interested in the demons-and-drow plotline with three months of hype leading into it or might there be a setting book or something planned for the gap?

Quote from: Matt;830563Ha ha ha...I have yet to see a published setting that wasn't chock full of shitty made-up names like that or full of idiotic apostrophes or unpronounceable letter combinations.  Official setting suck as a rule.

The Wilderlands is awesome. Greyhawk is not bad. Warhammer Fantasy's the Old World is supposed to be kind of a joke, but it still manages to be evocative and colorful. Most modern fantasy settings have hackneyed names, but they're not as outright dumb and absolutely lacking in any wonder as Greenwood's Realms.

Connyberry. Red Larch. Nettlebee Ranch. The Westwood. Triboar. Who could resist a realm so ripe with the promise of exotic wonders and stirring adventure! Neverwinter is the worst. The city of Neverwinter... the home of Castle Never... below which lie the Neverneath... where you can find the Crown of Neverwinter... and return it to Lord Neverember. My eight year old could come up with better stuff than that. And now the dread drow sorceror... Gromph Baenre. A debauched and decadent demon-worshipper of the blackest appetites... or a comical french goblin?

Quote from: Warthur;830665April to September is a huge gap to have no releases in. Do they seriously expect to keep everyone interested in the demons-and-drow plotline with three months of hype leading into it or might there be a setting book or something planned for the gap?

Princes of the Apocalypse should take 4-6 months to play through. Still, it is strange that WotC is publishing strictly adventure paths, and that even those are all being commissioned from third parties. Does D&D even have any full-time staff anymore? Do they just work on the organized play material?

Quote from: Omega;830649Greyhawk and BX Known World were actually pretty good. They werent as repettitive or overwrought as some later iterations.

The few glances Ive had at Birthright seems it has an interesting land naming convention.

I love me some Greyhawk, but lets be honest.  Half the names are either people's real names jumbled up (Zagyg, Dramidj, etc), or super generic (Great Kingdom, Vast Swamp, etc).

Quote from: Haffrung;830674Princes of the Apocalypse should take 4-6 months to play through. Still, it is strange that WotC is publishing strictly adventure paths, and that even those are all being commissioned from third parties. Does D&D even have any full-time staff anymore? Do they just work on the organized play material?

They're testing bits of mechanics here and there on the Unearthed Arcana articles (like the Eberron stuff from a while back and the current set of sea-based adventure rules, which snuck in details on the Dragonlance minotaurs), but what form these experiments will eventually take is deliberately vague.

Quote from: Omega;830649Greyhawk and BX Known World were actually pretty good. They werent as repettitive or overwrought as some later iterations.

The few glances Ive had at Birthright seems it has an interesting land naming convention.

I got the impression the names were taken from actual characters played out by players.
Which is probably how it was I suspect.

Quote from: danskmacabre;830852I got the impression the names were taken from actual characters played out by players.
Which is probably how it was I suspect.

In a way that is not too far off from some real naming conventions of countries.

Wolworth was named after a supermarket apparently on the Great Kingdom map. Probably others. Though most still feel more natural rather than FRs wordword world.

Hmmm,

I just went and dl'ed all the officially free pdfs I could find for 5e.  I ended up with 15 and I made an additional one with the EE trinket table.  Even though the core books are 52% off on Amazon right now, this might be enough for me

I wonder if there are more?

Quote from: Teazia;831092Hmmm,

I just went and dl'ed all the officially free pdfs I could find for 5e.  I ended up with 15 and I made an additional one with the EE trinket table.  Even though the core books are 52% off on Amazon right now, this might be enough for me

I wonder if there are more?

There are some side articles on things like a Urban Arcana setting and some other stuff buried in there too.

Currently I have
Basic PHB
Basic DMG(which is also the MM)
UA Battlesystem
UA Eberron
UA Waterborne
UA Class Variants

TOD Hoard Supplement
TOD Rise Supplement
EE Players Companion

And the articles on Trinkets, Random character gen, Urban Arcana, and so on.

Not to mention the League stuff

Quote from: Teazia;831092Hmmm,

I just went and dl'ed all the officially free pdfs I could find for 5e.  I ended up with 15 and I made an additional one with the EE trinket table.  Even though the core books are 52% off on Amazon right now, this might be enough for me

I wonder if there are more?

The only free, official D&D 5 PDFs I know of are the Basic Set and the Elemental Evil Players' Guide.
What other ones are there, and are they all on the Wizards Website? If so, where?

Quote from: Jame Rowe;831442The only free, official D&D 5 PDFs I know of are the Basic Set and the Elemental Evil Players' Guide.
What other ones are there, and are they all on the Wizards Website? If so, where?

The Unearthed Arcana articles are "officially free" if not "free, official" offerings. They are positioned as playtest-like.  The ones you list are the only ones that I know of that are "free, official" game materials.

Quote from: Haffrung;830674Princes of the Apocalypse should take 4-6 months to play through. Still, it is strange that WotC is publishing strictly adventure paths, and that even those are all being commissioned from third parties. Does D&D even have any full-time staff anymore? Do they just work on the organized play material?

The organized play stuff is done by freelancers and volunteers, not full-timers.

Quote from: VectorSigma;831702The organized play stuff is done by freelancers and volunteers, not full-timers.

And boy does it show at times! O_o

Defiance in Phlan was a nice starting cluster of five intro adventures. But some of the other ones are real stinkers (<_< Umberlee quests).